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As the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover limps to its ‘conclusion’ (more on that over the coming days – watch this space – the Doctor Aphra tie-in issues seem to be off in their own corner of the universe, doing their own thing. Which makes them much stronger in fairness – the mid-point of the crossover spent too much […]
Far more than just clever wordplay (the ‘Universal Healthcare’ pun is pretty irresistible though), ET-ER is a vibrant, fun and exciting jaunt into a clandestine emergency room that caters for […]
A comet causes a severe electromagnetic disturbance across the world, with a tenth of the Earth’s population developing telepathic powers. With the situation affecting such a huge number of people, […]
Being a big board game fan and a TTRPG player since the 80s, naturally I’m a big fan of both turn-based games and cyberpunk as a genre. So when I […]
Marvel’s What If…? series has been a great adaptation of the classic Marvel comic series, giving viewers entertaining, surprising and often clever twists on familiar scenes, characters and movies from […]
The last time a game based on Aliens was released for computers and consoles, we got the absolutely disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox and Sega. A buggy, derivative, just […]
The War of the Bounty Hunters crossover continues – with Luke drawing Vader away from his helpless, frozen friend, it’s now up to the young Skywalker to actually evade his […]
After a strong start and some brilliantly inventive, genuinely interesting episodes – arguably peaking with the reality-warping love story What If…Doctor Strange Lose His Head Instead of His Hands?. The […]
After watching the teens vs teacher, violent exploitation classic Class of 1984 recently, I thought I should check out the loose sequel – Class of 1999 – from Mark L. […]
Valance and Dengar are racing to the Crimson Dawn auction, in an attempt to rescue Valance’s friend, Han Solo, from his current fate as an in-demand objet d’art. A bit […]
The first story arc in Marvel’s new Alien series was a bit of a mixed bag; it was full of well-trodden Alien tropes, references and even the basic ‘Weyland-Yutani fails […]
Having made my way through the entire current series of Alien novels from Titan Books, which began with Alien: Out of the Shadows in 2014, I’ve now reviewed all of […]
When Princess Leia was revealed as the person inside Ubese bounty hunter Boushh’s armour in Return of the Jedi, it was a genuine surprise. She played the part of a […]
A successful mathematics professor on the verge of a hugely significant breakthrough is found wandering naked through Cambridge. His family and friends – even his dog – realise that Andrew […]
Arriving at the Crimson Dawn auction to take on his father, Luke Skywalker is unable to go through with confronting Vader face-to-face and instead lures him away to save his […]
Taking us right back to the MCU’s beginning – if not chronologically in-universe, at least the first scenes we saw in the then-fledgling experiment that’s become a true cinematic behemoth […]
